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Your soul is the whole world.

Hermann Hesse

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Apperance Home Tree
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Night Soul World
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
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Force Love Strong
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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Death Live Willing
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Beautiful Book Wall
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Beginning Live Magic Protection
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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Leadership Responsibility Thinking
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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Found Himself Lose Love People
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Break Up Children Deserve Destroy Love Mystery Passion
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Deal Sanity
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Men One Liner Truth

Your soul is the whole world.

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